Native to Nagaland, India ISO 639-3 nph | Native speakers 120,000 (2001 census) Glottolog phom1236 | |
Language family Sino-Tibetan
Brahmaputran
Konyak
Konyak–Chang
Phom | ||
Phom is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Phom people of Nagaland, northeastern India. Phom is spoken in 36 villages of Longleng subdivision, Tuensang District, northeastern Nagaland (Ethnologue).
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Names
Alternate names for Phom include Assiringia, Chingmengu, Phom, Phon, Tamlu, and Tamlu Naga (Ethnologue).
Vocabulary
A large part of the vocabulary of Phom is inherited from proto-Sino-Tibetan.
References
Phom language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA